Quality and Outcome in a Community Mental Health Team
- 1 February 1991
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance
- Vol. 4 (2)
- https://doi.org/10.1108/09526869110136102
Abstract
A pilot project to develop a practical and clinically useful data capture system is described. The system is designed to collect quality assurance and clinical outcome data on a routine basis to monitor and improve the efficiency and efficacy of the service offered by a multidisciplinary community mental health team. The system follows an “input‐process‐outcome” model. Quality and outcome measures are discussed with particular reference to the literature on simple outcome evaluation measures and the use of global scales.Keywords
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